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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I. S. SCHUYLER AND L. A, ROCK\VELL, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

HOSE-CARRIAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Isaac S. SCHUYLEP and LUoiUs A. RocnwnLL, of the city and county of New York, State of New York, have jointly and together made certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Extinguishing Fires; and we do hereby declare t-he following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, representing the forward axle,

out rope, when 1t 1s withdrawn until the bearing-wheels, &c., of a tire-engine, hosecart, or other tire apparatus with our 11nprovements attached, and 1n which- Figure l, is a plan view, Fig. 2 is a re-Y verse plan view, Fig. 8 is a side elevation.

Letter A represents the axletree, B, the tongue with cross bar B2 perforated with poles for the rope to pass through. The tongue is connected to the axletree by angle braces C C which together with the T braces C C form a frame in which the reel shafts D, D, rotate.

E, E, are two reels attached to shafts D, D, and to which the drag rope F is fastened, and on which it is wound.

G, G, are inclined toothed or ratchet wheels keyed on the shaft D, D.

II is a spring catch or stopper so arranged by means of the slots, and screw bolts, H, H2, as to be engaged with the teeth of the ratchet wheels G, G, or withdrawn at pleasure, and also so constructed as to yield while thrown into the teeth of the ratchet, when the ratchet takes a backward motion, which it does when winding in the rope.

I, I, are clutches connected with the shafts D D by a slot and feather as usual in clutches.

J is a sliding bar or connecting rod secured in slides J, J', directly underneath the tongue, and jointed at one end with the toggle joint K, which is connected with the clutches, by the bent shifting arms L, L, which take into grooves cut in the clutches.

M, M, are gear wheels ruiming on shafts 21,449, dated September '7, 1858.

D, D, and confined by a collar and screw nut D2 on the end of the same, and perforated with holes to correspond with projections on the clutches.

N, N, are gear wheels gearing into the wheels M, M, and secured to the hubs of the bearing wheels O, O, which rotate on the axles P, I).

The operation of the various parts above described is as follows, viz; The stop H is always thrown in, unless it is desired to let rope runs out by the pull on it, as far as desired, when it is again thrown in, and acts to hold fast the reel and thereby pull the engine. Then the rope requires to be taken in', the clutches are engaged with the wheels M, M, whicln'by means of the wheels N, N, attached to the bearing wheels O, O, cause the reels to rotate continuously to wind in the rope, so long as sufficient power is exerted on the rope to move the engine forward, the stopper H yielding to the back ward motion of the ratchet wheels.

f hat we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States isl. The arrangement and combination of two separate and independent rope reels respectively and separately with the bearing wheels rotating on theaxle tree to which the lreels are secured substantially as herein before described and substantially for the purposes herein before set forth.

Q. The within described method of connecting and disconnecting the rope reels with the bearing wheels of a tire engine, hose cart or other fire apparatus for the purpose of taking in the drag rope while the apparatus is drawn by it.

Isaac s. s cHUYLER. LUoIUs A. RooKwELL.

Titnesses RICHARD C. FnLLows, THos. S. THBESHER. 

